Sanitary drinking-fountain.



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' Patented Sept. 1?, 1918.

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Application filed Apr-117, 1817.; Serial Ho. 160, .313.

, To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known thatl, JAMns W. RAMBDELL, a citizen of-the United States, residing ct. Highland Park, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sanitary Drinking-Fountains, of which, the following is a specification.

This invention relates to drinking fountains, and especially to that type of fountain known as bubble cup, although having con elder-able dill'erences from the bubble ang e as ordinarily used. Such cups as common y used have a central mouth piece with o jet.

hole therein, to which the lips of the drinker are applied. This is unsanitary, because there is efpossibility that bacteria or germs may be le ten the mouth piece or upon the parts which come in contact with the faces of the users. The object of the present invention is to provide a drinkingfountain which is free from these objections, and this is accomplished by causing the jet to flow in a curve from the cup or bowl, from an orifice so located that the month of the user cannot be applied thereto; bntthe drinker drinks at the crest of the stream several inches from the jet opening, and, furthen more, the water after it posses'his lips-does not flow over or upon the mouth piece, but goes at once to waste. By the means described a sanitary drinking fountain is provided, free from any possibility of contamination.

The invention is illustrated in the ac eonrpnnying drawings in wl1ich- Figure 3. is c section of the fountein.

FAQ- 2 a. plan View thereof.

Referring" epecificelly t0 the drawings, 6 indicates a cup or bowl; and this is conveniently oval in Ion, as shown in Fig. 2. A waste outlet is indicated at E, at the hot- 'lfilll of the bowl.

In the side wall of the bowl, preferably at the end of its longer axes, is a jet orifice 8, to which water is supplied through a passage 9 from ,a supply pipe 10, controlled for example by a push valve 11. The locntion and direction of the orifice 8 is such that a stream issuing therefrom will describe t parabola within the cup, with its crest or highest point at about the level of the rim of the cup, and about the center thereof, the stream finally striking the opposite end of the cup and. flowing to waste. The location of the jet opening 8 is such that it is racticelly impossible for the lips of the drinker tobe applied thereto, but the jet rising to the position described 13 in such location that the Y mouth of the drinker can be readily applied thereto. The waste from the lips; of the drinker falls directly into the cup, and out through the waste pipe and does not by any nenner oimeene come in contact with the et opening or pass over or around the seine. If desired, on extending art 12 may he formed on the inner wall 0 the cup hon ing over and extending beside the get onfice, so as to positively prevent any persone lips being applied to the jet orifice and to prevent dirt or foreign matter dropping thereon, and to some extent prevent e. person placing his hands upon or about the opening. The device constructed acei'vrdingio the invention will have the indicated and will he eerviceeble to users who would otherwise be deterred by the fear that the lips of other persons have been applied to the mouth piece, as in the eennnon type of bubbling cu 7 claim:

1. A drinking fountain conipriein a cup having an internal conduit in the Si e wall thereof, terminating in e jet orifice in position to discharge a stream npwardl over vertical plane beyond that of the old 7 overhanging the same to revent ewes of a users mouth thereto an from his mouth falling thereon.

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2. A drinking fountain comprising e cup having it waste outlet in the bottom and an integral conduit terminating in a ct orifice in the side Wall thereof located'e one said outlet and below the rim of the cup, acid or? fice being directed at an inclination up wardiy over the Waste nuilet, and a shield projecting from the rim of the cup nbOXe said orifice and extending inwardly and lawnwardly beyond the vertical plane of said arifice, whereby t'o prevent access of a user's mouth in said orifice and to prevent waste or drip from his mouth falling thereon.

In testimony vile I do afi ix my signa hire in presence Oi t itnesses.

JAKE)? W. Vi i messes VJALTER S. EIMPSOIQ J. 11-11mm 

